u/jexo10

All launch event of phones sounds same now, they just take about small improvements then start a long ai segment

They always get to the AI section and it turns into a long list of features. Rewrite this, summarize that, remove things from photos, generate backgrounds and al those other useless ai feature which no one use often.

I asked a friend who bought the latest samsung what he actually uses. He paused for a second and said he tried the eraser tool once.

It kind of reminds me of the megapixel era. Bigger the numbers, bigger hype it generated in marketing, then eventually nobody really cared anymore. Feels like ai might be heading in that direction

I am still on windows 10 myself. I have tried win 11 once and genuinely couldn't find anything good about it. They moved start menu, locked a lot of usefull settings, half the stuff i used daily got removed or difficult to acess and they added a bunch of slop softwares to slow you computer. felt like i broke my own computer just by updating. I downgraded to win 10 immediately after that

microsoft officially ended support for windows 10 this year and there are still millions of people just not moving. security patches gone, end of life, still not enough to make most people switch

11 didn't solve any major problem and added more problem/restrictions, it feels like more of a downgrade than upgrade from last gen

Software subscriptions.

I bought Photoshop years ago, installed it and that was it. If I wanted to use it five years later, I could. Now it's a monthly payment, and the moment you stop paying, you lose access to the software you've been using the whole time.

I get paying a subscription for things that actually cost money to keep running, like cloud storage or streaming. But it feels like more and more software switched to subscriptions simply because companies realized it made more money. If you could permanently fix one thing about modern tech, what would it be?

I'd actually buy an MP3 player again.

Not one from 2008. A modern one with good long battery life, enough storage for my music, bluetooth, and that's it.

Sometimes I just want to listen to music without my phone buzzing every few minutes or ending up on youtube because I skipped one song.

What's yours ?

Laser eye surgery has cost roughly the same for about 20 years. every other medical device and tech got cheaper over time, screens, cameras, processors, all of it dropped in price as it matured. lasik just didn't. industry figured out the price people would pay and stayed there

replacement ink cartridges the same thing. printers got cheaper, the ink somehow didn't, margins are just too good to bother competing on price when you already have someone locked into your machine

some technologies find a price that works and just never have a reason to move

What's the next thing going in your bag after your phone?

For me it's probably a power bank. Doesn't matter how good my phone is if it's dead halfway through the day. Curious what everyone else's automatic pick is

microsoft signed a deal to restart three mile island just to power their datacenters. google's investing in nuclear startups. amazon built its own power deals. these are software companies that became the biggest driver of energy infrastructure spending almost overnight

ai needs so much electricity that in some areas they literally can't build new datacenters fast enough because the local grid can't support them

a few years ago the big tech story was always a new app or a new model. now it's whether there's enough power to keep the servers running at all

cracked my phone screen last year, looked up the repair cost, nearly as expensive as just buying a refurbished version of the same phone. the part itself is cheap, the labor is fine, the problem is getting the actual screen from anywhere official costs almost as much as the device

same with printer ink. cartridges that cost 30 dollars to buy contain maybe 2 dollars worth of actual ink. entire industry exists around that gap, third party cartridges, refill kits, people on ebay selling compatible ones that work identically for a quarter of the price

manufacturers set the replacement part price knowing you have no real choice once you're already locked into the device

finished building my pc last year, ran out of things to tinker with, ended up down a nas rabbit hole for three weeks straight. synology vs truenas, drive configurations, plex setups, network shares, the whole thing

it's the same energy as picking parts for a pc except the hobby never really ends. there's always another drive to add, another service to self host, another reason the current setup isn't quite right

most people who build pcs eventually end up here, there's just always one more thing to set up

Youtube has been recommending the same handful of channels to me for what feels like forever.

Even if I try their explore page it just recommends me mainstream slop which I don't even want to watch.

Now everything feels like a closed loop, apps keep you stuck in your own feed, showing you more of what you already like instead of anything new. It feels like anything outside the mainstream barely has a chance to reach you. The internet has never had more content, but it somehow feels harder than ever to actually discover something different

My external hard drive hasn't been plugged in for almost a year.

Same with my USB stick, SD card reader and ethernet cable. They all just sit in a drawer until that one random day where suddenly nothing else will do the job.

It's funny how some tech spends 99% of its life being completely ignored. Then one day you need it, and for the next ten minutes it's the most important device you own

closed every non browser app on my laptop last week just to see what actually required them. answer was basically nothing for a normal day. docs in chrome, spotify in chrome, email in chrome, video calls in chrome, even figma works in browser now

only thing that forced me to open a real app was a game. everything else just sat in tabs

chromebooks basically already proved this works for most people and nobody really talks about it like the obvious thing it is

Before the crowdstrike outage I'd never even heard of crowdstrike.

Then one bad update rolled out and suddenly everything broke at the same time. Airports, banks, hospitals, all dealing with the same issue, and people who had never heard of crowdstrike were suddenly seeing it everywhere.

It's strange how that works. These systems run quietly in the background for years without anyone noticing. Then one failure happens and overnight they go from invisible to something everyone is talking about